Thanks for the continued in interest in Hauptwerk.
hankoster wrote:I have an Evolution MK-149 keyboard connected via USB2.0-MIDI to my PC and I have problems to connect it to Hauptwerk.
When I right click a key on the console and ask automatic detection it instructs me to press the lowest en highest key and press Done when that button becomes activated. It never comes to that state.
I have tried a lot of things: power switch the keyboard, disconnect and reconnect, unplug and replug USB, restart Hauptwerk and all these in different order.
All of a sudden it worked. I cannot recollect what the lastest order of manipulation was to come to thsi state. But now I can play using this keyboard.
You should just need to:
- Make sure that your MIDI keyboard is always connected to the computer and powered up *before* you launch Hauptwerk. Hauptwerk queries the list of audio and MIDI devices from the operating system when Hauptwerk launches and it expects them to remain the same; it doesn't support 'hot-plugging' devices, so you mustn't plug in, unplug, or turn on, or turn off, and audio or MIDI devices whilst Hauptwerk is actually running -- always exit Hauptwerk before doing any of those things. Please exit and re-launch Hauptwerk if you might previously have changed any physical connections since you launched it.
- Make sure that your MIDI keyboard's MIDI port is ticked in the *left-hand* ('Console MIDI IN') column on Hauptwerk's 'General settings | MIDI IN ports' screen (*not* the right-hand 'Sequencer MIDI IN' column).
- With the St. Anne's organ loaded, you should then be able to auto-detect the keyboard successfully.
hankoster wrote:Next I like to connect the numeric keys of the keyboard to the preset knobs of the organ.
Again I right click the knob. Select auto detect. I am instructed to press a key and click the enabled Done button.
But again it fails. I can use the keyboard to play te organ, so the connection is OK.
What do I do wrong?
Am I right in understanding that you're referring to computer keyboard's built-in numeric keypad?
If so, and assuming it's a PC (as opposed to a Mac), please first make sure that you have the keyboard's NumLock function turned on.
If that doesn't solve it:
What operating system and version are you using? Also, can you give a specific example of a virtual control on the St. Anne's organ that isn't auto-detecting for you?
If I use right-click auto-detection on one of the St. Anne's virtual Great divisional pistons (underneath the virtual Great manual), keys on my PC's numeric keypad auto-detect properly for me (on Windows 10).